S.N. Pollalis
A Visual Representation System for the Scheduling and Management of Projects
AKS Publications, Delft, 1992

This work represents a new efficient method for the control and allocation of resources employed in the creation of a product.  While most of the examples in the text refer to manufacturing of buildings, the method is general, applicable to the generation of even non-physical products such as research projects.

The superiority of the Pollalis system over traditional analytical Operations Research and Program Scheduling, in offering an easier comprehensive view of the process and in coping flexibily with qualitative data, results from the choice of representation for the specific problem of reasoning about actions.  Visual descriptions of the system require less prerequisites to be comprehended and "cost" less effort to be used.

-- Prof. A. Tzonis

Contents

List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Summary

Introduction
Quantified Bars
Quantified Bar Charts
Templates
The Matrix-Balanced Chart
Hierarchial Representation
State-Of-Practice Representations
Comparison with the State-Of-Practice

Bibliography
Samenvatting
Credits
Index

At the Frances Loeb Library: TH438.4.P65x